Winter salads have consisted of a mix of gourmet lettuce seeds called Rocky Top mix:
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| Rocky Top mix lettuce |
Plus we've been able to throw in spinach, carrots, cucumbers, and snow peas.
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| Danvers half-long carrots |
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| sugar snap edible pod snow peas |
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| cucumbers and wandering Jew in hanging baskets |
He also has some cherry tomatoes, green beans, and cabbage growing out there.
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| Cabbage plants |
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| Chadwick cherry tomatoes |
Of course, we have had to heat the greenhouse at night due to some of the warmer-weather plants out there. Next winter, he says he'll try it with just cool-weather crops and see how that does.
We keep arugula growing all year around here in the DFW area even with a few freezes without a green house. It's like kale & chard and doesn't freeze easy. I bet I've saved over $1,000 or more in the last two years by not buying lettuice like Romain and such. The chard on the west side of the house survived the winter and is looking good.
ReplyDeleteAnd it seems like it tastes SO much better when you grow it yourself, doesn't it?
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